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About Tom Hollingworth

Tom Hollingsworth is a former deputy sports editor of the Daily Express. For many years he worked in a sports agency, representing mainly football players and motor racing drivers. Tom holds a private pilot’s licence and flying is his principal recreation. More Posts

The First Test

In the 55 years or so I have been watching and reporting on sport there is one constant. When a British sportsman or team is well beaten by overseas opposition , in the navel gazing afterwards the quality of that opposition is understated. I first appreciated this when boxer John H Stracey of whom [...]

June 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Missing the great presenters

Watching a lot of sport over the weekend I not only missed the great commentators individual to their sport – Bill Maclaren, Richie Benaud, Henry Longhurst – but the legendary presenters too. Titans like David Coleman was editor of his local Stockport newspaper aged 23 and his [...]

June 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Second up …

I warned Rust readers that I’d be drawing their attention to the ongoing series of articles about the future of sport. Here’s a link to the second in the sequence – THE [...]

June 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Is this one too far?

Some think we on the Rust have a fetish about sporting debates. It’s not quite true, but there are certainly a number of issues around which sporting purity, fairness, integrity and principle (on the one hand) wrestle with expediency, power, corruption, influence and commercial imperatives [...]

June 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The future of sport

The Guardian newspaper is beginning a new series of pieces on the issues attending the future of sport. It begs the question as to which sports – and how they are marketed – will come to dominate the 21st Century. My guess would be that before too long real-life sport might just be [...]

June 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Descent of Pan

All my life I’ve been a fanatical all-round sports fan but the incident in which Tiger Woods was arrested for ‘DUI’ [driving under the influence] on Monday 29th May has caused plenty of reaction and had me wracking my brains. In the UK I must have since read at least a dozen [...]

June 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Going to the dogs

Evolve or die. Stuff happens. In the race of sporting life there are always winners and losers. You must constantly change and develop. An ambition to stay the same is actually one to keep going backwards. We have addressed such sporting issues on the Rust with perception and regularity over the [...]

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Moving it forward without leaving it behind

The Rust is proud of its reputation as one of the world’s leading observers and commentators upon the key issues facing elite global sports – performance-enhancing drugs; corruption; rampant commercialism; the pros and cons of armchair TV sports-watching versus actually ‘being [...]

March 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

This and that

Like many, though not as devotedly as Ivan Conway and Alan Tanner, I am following the Championship with interest particularly the race for the play-offs which is boiling up nicely. Last night Huddersfield in 3rd place played lowly Bristol City and Reading in 5th went to Sheffield Wednesday 6th. My [...]

March 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

The whiff of rotting fish

For organisations such as British Cycling and Team Sky – who have both wallowed in the reflected glory of their supposed legendary attention to detail, pursuit of ‘marginal gains’ and savvy media relations all based around their avowed core principle of seeking to be a beacon of [...]

March 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

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